Brian R. Sullivan was born in New York City in 1945. He attended Regis High School, an all-scholarship Jesuit institution. In 1967, he graduated from Columbia College, where he was a member of the varsity track and cross country teams, with B.A.s in both history and English. After receiving a commission as a second lieutenant, he spent three years in the United States Marine Corps, including one year in Vietnam in 1968-69. While in Vietnam, Dr. Sullivan served as an artillery forward observer, a battery firing officer, an intelligence officer and an infantry platoon commander. He received the Silver Star and Purple Heart. In 1970, he was appointed both an intelligence and embarkation officer. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1993. Following active service, Dr. Sullivan did graduate studies at Columbia University, where he concentrated on the study of modern Italian history. After completing classroom work, he traveled extensively in Africa, the Middle East and Southern Asia. He spent 1973-76 in Rome, London and Washington doing research for his dissertation, a study of the Italian Air Force and Army under the Fascist regime, 1922-36. He completed work on his Ph.D. in 1983. Dr. Sullivan taught 20th century European military history, Italian history and Spanish history at Yale University in 1984-88. In 1985, he founded the New York Military Affairs Symposium and became its president. In 1988, Dr. Sullivan accepted a Secretary of the Navy Fellowship at the Naval War College, subsequently becoming a member of the Strategy & Policy Department. Dr. Sullivan also has taught as an adjunct faculty member at Drexel University, George Washington University and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Dr. Sullivan and Philip V. Cannistraro co-authored the biography of Mussolini's mentor and adviser in 1912-36, Margherita Sarfatti, Il Duce's Other Woman (William Morrow, 1993). In January 1994, it received the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association-American Catholic Historical Association as the outstanding Italian history book published in 1993. The biography appeared in Italian as Margherita Sarfatti (Mondadori, 1993). During the Gulf Crisis and War, Dr. Sullivan advised the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict on psychological and special operations. In June 1991, He became a Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at National Defense University and was appointed a Senior Research Professor in June 1994. At INSS, Dr. Sullivan researched national strategic issues including counterterrorism, international organized crime as a security issue, 21st century urban warfare, the evolving strategic environment in Asia, new force structures for the US military, space warfare and the "Revolution in Military Affairs." He co-wrote Terrorism 2000, an analysis of emerging terrorist threats, and Project 2025 and Project 2015, studies of the evolving security environment, for the Joint Staff. In 1997, Dr. Sullivan left INSS to become an independent writer and consultant. His first major project was a study of future warfare in space for US Space Command. He has recently completed a biography of the Italian naval theorist, Romeo Bernotti, and edited translations of his most important works, Fundamentals of Naval Tactics and Fundamentals of Naval Strategy, to be published by Frank Cass. He is editing The Limits of Technology in Modern War (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Since mid-1999, Dr. Sullivan has been an adviser to the Defense Reform Committee of the Korean Ministry of Defense on the RMA and consults regularly with a number of European government security agencies. In mid-2000, he began a book on space power and naval strategy for the Center for Naval Warfare Studies. Prof. Sullivan has written over forty major published articles on national security, intelligence, military theory, international relations, and military, naval and diplomatic history. He is married to Laura Kay Fleming, an expert on laser surgery, and lives in northern Virginia.